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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:49:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote: Anonymous Classes
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 08:38 +0100, Joe Watkins wrote:
> 	I brought it up in IRC the other day and someone, I forget who, but 
> recognized them at the time, said they'd rather see it in 5.7, then a 
> few people joined in the discussion and I couldn't really argue with 
> their reasoning.

When I brought this up I was on my current primary rant. Even small
additions to the language have an impact on tools, best practices, ...
which have to be explored about how to use them and how those interact
with each other.

To be clear: I love anonymous classes, I always wanted them when using
FilterIterator etc. (while meanwhile generators+closures might be a
better tool for some of those use cases) But we are moving extremely
fast in reshaping the language making it hard for our users, of which
many -- in my assumption -- primarily want a stable platform, to keep
up.

Oh and talking about "stable platform". Current bug count: 3891

See also my previous message on that subject:
http://news.php.net/php.internals/69093

johannes